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List Of Australian Aboriginal Musicians
This is a list of Indigenous Australian musicians. Solo artists * Trevor Adamson – country/gospel singer * Danzal Baker (Baker Boy) – rapper, singer *Auriel Andrew – country musician *Christine Anu (Torres Strait Islander) – singer-songwriter, actress, producer, and speaker *Ronald Dick – Singer-songwriter Musical Theatre Triple Threat *David Arden – singer and guitar player *George Assang – singer and actor * Mark Atkins – didgeridoo player *Maroochy Barambah – mezzo-soprano * Black Allan Barker – country/blues singer * William Barton – didgeridoo player *Lou Bennett – musician and actor * Birdz – rapper, songwriter *Harold Blair – tenor * David Blanasi – didgeridoo player * Briggs – hip hop performer *Brothablack – hip hop performer * Burragubba – didgeridoo player *Sammy Butcher – guitarist, ex Warumpi Band *Kev Carmody – singer-songwriter *Bernard Carney – all-round Australian musician * Troy Cassar-Daley – country musician * Deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Adamson
Trevor Adamson is a country/gospel singer best known for his song ''Nyanpi Matilda'', a Pitjantjatjara version of Waltzing Matilda. He is from Pukatja, South Australia and sings in both Pitjantjatjara and English. He was the subject of an episode of an ABC TV series, ''Six Australians''. Trevor Adamson also featured in episode #1008 of the NITV show "Pmarra Country", an Aboriginal tribute to the legendary Slim Dusty, in which Mr. Adamson performed his Pitjantjatjara language version of Slim Dusty's 1972 song "When the Rain Tumbles Down in July". Discography *''Godaku Walytja-Piti'' (Gods Family) (1982) with the Enabella children *''Trust in the Lord'' (1985) - Imparja *''Where I Belong'' (1989) - CAAMA The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is an organisation founded in 1980 to expose Aboriginal music and culture to the rest of Australia. It started with 8KIN-FM, the first Aboriginal radio station in the country. Based in A ... *''Waltzing Matilda'' (1994) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briggs (rapper)
Adam Briggs (born 28 August 1986), who performs as Briggs and self-describes as Senator Briggs (although not a member of the Australian Senate), is an Indigenous Australian rapper, record label owner, comedy writer, actor, and author. Briggs became well known as a "solo rapper", signing with Golden Era Records in 2009, before co-founding the hip hop duo A.B. Original in 2016. As a solo artist, Briggs has released one EP, ''Homemade Bombs'' in 2009, and two albums, 2010's ''The Blacklist'' and 2014's ''Sheplife''. He has also made appearances on songs with Hilltop Hoods, the Funkoars, Drapht and The Last Kinection. In the live arena, he has supported international artists such as Ice Cube, KRS-One, Necro, Ghostface Killah, Dilated Peoples, M.O.P., and Pharoahe Monch.Briggs' biography on Golden Era Records website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Dargan
Ash Dargan is an indigenous Australian didgeridoo player. He is a member of the Larrakia people but did not find out about his aboriginality until he was 21.The West Australian, 22 June 2000, "Competition" by Ara Jansen He teaches and performs all over the world. He is a former member of Coloured Stone, appearing on their 1999 album ''Rhythm of Nature''. Discography *''Earth Rhythms'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Wirrimbah'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Trancescapes'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Aphrodidjiac'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Tribal Offerings'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Ancient Spirit'' (1999) Indigenous Australia *''Echoes of Ancient Didjeridu'' (1999) Indigenous Australia *''Sun Always Dances'' (1999) Indigenous Australia *''Woomera'' (1999) Indigenous Australia *''Breath of Man'' (2000) Indigenous Australia *''Ash Dust & Dirt'' (2000) Indigenous Australia *''Demurru meditation'' (2000) Indigenous Australia *''Pharaoh's Dreamtime'' (2001) Indigenous Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaman Dan
Henry Gibson Dan (25 August 1929– 30 December 2020), known as Seaman Dan, an Indigenous Australian, was a Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriter with a national and international reputation whose first recording was released in 2000. His album ''Perfect Pearl'' won the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album in 2004 and in 2009 won again with ''Sailing Home''. He performed in Japan and throughout Australia, most notably at the National Folk Festival (Australia), National Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Darwin Festival, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, Laura Dance and Music Festival, Tasmania's 10 Days on the Island Festival, NAIDOC Ball, and at the National Museum of Australia's Tracking Kultja Festival. Early life Seaman Dan was born on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Islands Region of Far North Queensland, far-north Queensland, Australia in 1929. His great-grandfather was a sailor from Jamaica in the West Indies and his great-grandmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miiesha
Miiesha is an Australian singer-songwriter from the Aboriginal community of Woorabinda, Queensland. She was the recipient of New Talent of the Year at the 2020 National Indigenous Music Awards and won the ARIA Award for Best Soul/R&B Release at the 2020 ARIA Music Awards. Early life and education Miiesha is an Aṉangu/Torres Strait Islander woman, and has been singing for her community since the age of 8 and has since been developing her songwriting as a teenager. Miiesha is inspired by the sounds of RnB, gospel and soul, and the power of spoken word poetry. Career 2019–2020: ''Nyaaringu'' Miiesha made her debut single "Black Privilege" in June 2019. In May 2020, Miiesha released her debut album titled, '' Nyaaringu''; a project of 9 songs tied together through the common themes of her life, her community and her people. Her late Grandmother's interludes provide a thread between the tracks, highlighting the passing down of knowledge from Elders through the generations. the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Cummins
Marlene Cummins is a jazz blues singer, saxophonist, songwriter, artist, Aboriginal Australian activist, broadcaster, dancer, and actor. Many activists consider her to be Australia's Angela Davis. Music Cummins is considered Australia's foremost indigenous blues performer, and is influenced by Big Mama Thornton, Etta James and Ray Charles. She honed her skills at the Berklee College of Music. Her band includes Murray Cook and Rex Goh. She showcases her vast knowledge of blues and roots music on Koori Radio, where she hosts ''Marloo's Blues'', providing music and discussions from an indigenous perspective. This show won her the Broadcaster of the Year award at the 2009 Deadly Awards. Marlene co-wrote her first release "Whichway Up" with writer & performer Isaiah B Brunt, the EP was recorded and produced by Tony Buchen and released in 2008. "Whichway Up" made the top 10 Australian Blues Radio Charts and was picked up by Qantas where it aired on high rotation. Cummins wrote a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Corowa
Marcus Corowa is an Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter from Bowen, Queensland Bowen is a coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Bowen had a population of 10,377 people. The locality contains two other towns: * Heronvale () * Merinda (). The Abbot Point coal s .... Now based in Sydney, Corowa performs a mix of blues, soul and jazz Corowa won a Deadly in 2012 for Most Promising New Talent in Music. On 15 September, 2019 Marcus joined the cast of puppetry show Song for the Mardoowarra during its season at the World Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville Mezieres, France. Discography * ''The Greater You'' References External links Marcus Corowa {{DEFAULTSORT:Corowa, Marcus Indigenous Australian musicians Australian male singers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Bowen, Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Chi
James Ronald Chi (1948 – 26 June 2017) was an Australian composer, musician and playwright. His best known work is the 1990 musical ''Bran Nue Dae'' which was adapted for film in 2009. Early life Chi was born in Broome, Western Australia in 1948 to a father of Chinese and Japanese descent and a mother of Scottish, Bardi and Nyulnyul descent. Career From 1981 to 1982 Chi was the lead singer of the band Kuckles, before they disbanded. Chi's most acclaimed work is ''Bran Nue Dae'', written in collaboration with his band Kuckles, Scrap Metal, the Pigram brothers and friends. ''Bran Nue Dae'', is a partly autobiographical work which took Jimmy many years to write. It celebrates family, forgiveness and reconciliation and was a hit at the Festival of Perth in 1990 where it was performed by the Black Swan Theatre. It went on to tour Australia extensively and it was Australia's most successful musical play of the early 1990s. One of the famous verses from a song in the musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Cheetham
Deborah Joy Cheetham (born 24 November 1964), is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, actor, composer and playwright. Early life and education Cheetham is a member of the Stolen Generations; she was taken from her mother when she was three weeks old"Where did all the children go?" '''', 5 July 2000 and was raised by a white baptist family. Jimmy Little was her uncle. Cheetham graduated from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troy Cassar-Daley
Troy Cassar-Daley (born 18 May 1969) is an Australian country music songwriter and entertainer. Cassar-Daley has released thirteen studio albums, two live albums and five compilation albums over 30 years, including the platinum-selling ''The Great Country Songbook'' with Adam Harvey. Throughout this time he has received awards including five ARIA Music Awards, forty Golden Guitars, nine Deadly Awards (Australian Indigenous Artist Awards), four Country Music Association of Australia Entertainer of the Year awards and two National Indigenous Music Awards. Early life and career Cassar-Daley was born on 18 May 1969 in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills to a Maltese-Australian father and an Aboriginal mother from the Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung people. At a very young age, he moved with his mother to Grafton in north-eastern New South Wales. At eleven, Troy went to the Tamworth Country Music Festival and returned the next year to busk on the streets. At 16, he and his band, Little E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Carney
Bernard James Carney is an all-round Australian musician, who has worked in music since 1974. He is a songwriter, community choir director and guitar teacher, and his songs are peppered with passion and humour. He has made nine successful albums, including "West", "Feathers and tributes", and "No time like the future". Carney was the main guest at the "Top Half Festival" near Alice Springs in June 2007 and he has regularly played at the Fairbridge Festival. He was the face of the Perth White Pages for 2010. Carney has received four major Australian song writing awards. He has been a prominent guest at Australia's major acoustic music festivals, including the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland (for 10 consecutive years), The Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria (named Artist of the Year in 2003), and the National Folk Festival in Canberra. He has regularly toured internationally, and has done international support concert work with Foster and Allen, Gene Pitney, Taj Mahal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kev Carmody
Kevin Daniel Carmody (born 1946), better known by his stage name Kev Carmody, is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter and musician, a Murri man from northern Queensland. He is best known for the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow", which was recorded with co-writer Paul Kelly for their 1993 single. It was covered by the Get Up Mob (including guest vocals by both Carmody and Kelly) in 2008 and peaked at number four on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) singles charts. Carmody has won many awards, and in 2009 was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as well as being a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards. In 2019, Carmody was recipient of the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards. He is also known for his activism for Aboriginal rights. Early life and education Kevin Daniel Carmody was born in 1946 in Cairns, Queensland. His father, John "Jack" Carmody, was a second-generation Irish descendant and his mother, Bonny, an Aboriginal woman o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
